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American medicine and the public interest
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- Creator
- Rosemary Stevens
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Updated edition with new introduction
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
- ©1998
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- xxxv, 578 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520210093, 9780520210097
- OCLC
- ocm37282632
- Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1971.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 548-561) and index.
- Pt. I. The Professional Setting. 1. From Colonial Times to the Civil War: The First Two Hundred and Fifty Years. 2. Egalitarianism in Medicine and the Challenge of Specialism, 1860-1900. 3. Reform Achieved: The AMA and Medical Education, 1890-1914 -- Pt. II. Formal Recognition of the Specialties, 1900-1930. 4. Surgeons, Physicians, and General Practitioners: The Rebirth of the College System, 1900-1916. 5. Delineation of a Specialty: Ophthalmology, Optometry, and the First Specialty Board. 6. The American Medical Association and Specialization. 7. The Public Interest and the Profession. 8. The Specialists and Professional Regulation -- Pt. III. The Specialties Come of Age, 1930-1950. 9. Medical Specialization and Medical Care: Prospects of Organizational Change. 10. Who Should Control Specialization? 11. Specialties and Specialty Boards: The Defining Process. 12. The Boards As a System. 13. Medical Care in the 1940s -- Pt. IV. Professional Structures Reexamined. 14. Specialization and the General Practitioner. 15. Pressures for New Specialty Boards: A Process of Fragmentation. 16. Professionalism and the Medical School. 17. Graduate Medical Education -- Pt. V. The Medical Profession and Medical Care. 18. Medicine and the Public Voice: The Financing of Medical Care. 19. Shoring up the System: Medicare. 20. Medicaid: Promise and Experience. 21. The Federal Government and the Health Care System. 22. American Medicine and the Public Interest
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- Medicine -- United States.
- Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- United States.
- Medical care -- United States.
- History of Medicine.
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- Specialization.
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- Clinical Medicine -- history.
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- Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration.
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- Health Policy.
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- United States.
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